At 12:09 PM 2/4/2003 -0600 Dan Minette wrote:
>> Clearly, it wasn't in his contract.
>
>In the real world of business, John, there is an implicit contract as well
>as an explicit contract.
Obviously, they differ in their opinons on the nature of the implicit
contract. Personally, I'm shocked that in Brin-L of all places, everyone
assumes that the big corporation and not the employee is right about the
"implicit" details of the contract.
>Coverage of stories such as these can significantly affect long term
>viewership. IIRC, CNN made itself a multi-billion dollar company based on
>its coverage of the Gulf War.
Again I am not saying that *noone* should have to work on weekends. Hell,
I am not even saying that Mr Brown should never have to cancel a vacation
to work on a weekend. As you point out, a *war*, in which there is actual
*news* would be a good example of precisely such a situation. As it were,
the earliest Brown could have made it back to Atlanta was what? 2pm? By
then, most networks were going off the air because there was *no* news.
The industrial media complex has a tendency to overhype minor news events
into major stories - and Brown correctly saw through this that his return
to CNN would not have done much for the company and would have imposed
significant costs on himself.
Indeed, as it was, from National Review:
CNN WINS SHUTTLE RATINGS [Rod Dreher]
CNN scored a rare victory over the Fox News Channel in Saturday's coverage
of the shuttle disaster. No secret as to why: anchor Miles O'Brien. He's
the regular CNN Saturday morning host, and, as luck (if that is the word)
would have it, he also is their space correspondent. The man knows his
beat, and was terrific in that crisis.
I'll say it again: Kudos to Mr. Brown.
JDG
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